Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a major foreign policy speech to the Brookings Institution yesterday, highlighting her record of diplomacy with Europe

“I must begin by being very frank,” Clinton said. “When President Obama and I came into office, this relationship was frayed.”

She added, “From day one, President Obama and I made clear that if we were going to make progress, we had to do the hard work of renewing and reinvigorating our partnerships around the world, and that began with Europe.”

Clinton praised America’s record of partnership with Europe rising to meet foreign policy challenges in Afghanistan, Libya, and Iran under her watch – even referring to the advances she had made since former President Bill Clinton’s administration.